EditorialStrychnine tree, nux vomica, poison nut or semen strychnos, Strychnos nux-vomica, Noix vomique. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq...
EditorialKain panjang (long sarong), Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Long batik sarong (kain panjang) in dark blue, dark brown, and light brown on cream-colored ground. Shows the 'semen' motif of leaves, flowers, and plants e...
EditorialKain panjang (long sarong), Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Long batik sarong (kain panjang) in dark blue, light brown, and white. Dark blue ground showing numerous white dots known as 'gabah sinawur' or 'grains of r...
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Batik textile, possibly a long sarong (kain panjang), showing traditional 'semen' (non-geometric forms like flora and fauna) design in blue, white and tan., Indonesia, 19th ce...
EditorialKain panjang (long sarong), Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Long batik sarong (kain panjang) in dark blue, light brown, and white. Dark blue ground showing numerous white dots known as 'gabah sinawur' (grains of rice...
EditorialSarong, Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, A sarong featuring the 'semen' motif--a design of finely drawn scrolling lines, tablets, dotted areas, etc. in dark blue and light tan on white ground., Indonesia, early 19th c...
EditorialWormseed or semen sanctum, Artemisia santonica. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg i...
EditorialStrychnine tree, nux vomica, poison nut or semen strychnos, Strychnos nux-vomica, Noix vomique. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq...
EditorialMicroscopic views of human spermatozoa. View of the animalculae or organic particles in the semen. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Barlow from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal System of Natural History, London, 1796.
EditorialWormseed or semen sanctum, Artemisia santonica. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg i...